Maria Antoniego Malczewskiego jako książka. Rekonesans
Antoni Malczewski’s book Maria. Reconnaissance

Author(s): Zofia Dambek-Giallelis
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: biography; 19th-century book; Romanticism; Antoni Malczewski
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses some aspects of the elements of the first edition of Antoni Malczewski’s Maria. It merely outlines this issue, which touches on the anthro- pology of writing and printing, on the one hand, and the history of books and printing in Poland in the early 19th century and the author’s life on the other.In the first part, the author discusses the writing of Maria, putting forward the hypothe- sis that Malczewski influenced the shape of his book. She then devotes particular attention to this verse novel’s fate on the book market and the copyright at the time. The article goes on to discuss the layout of the title page, above all, the graphic element placed on it and the footnotes closing the novel. The author’s footnotes to Maria are initially classified into several categories, with the author focusing on the way in which Malczewski used the ref- erenced bibliography and how this relates to Maria’s depicted world (historical realities).

• Details
• Contents